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Sex Actualization . Tantra Practice Group
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"A tremendous change is happening on the planet.
I have a feeling we are ready, at long last, to truly love." Dawn Cartwright
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Week 1 . Open Class
This year is dedicated to the Sri Vidya and my journey back to Devipuram in January. The heart of desire.
In this new series we'll travel from the outermost edges of the Sri Yantra, to the bindu at the center of Her heart. Beginning with the expansiveness of sex, we'll journey back to the place where it is perpetually and eternally conceived. Together, we'll uncover secrets of the body and pleasure. We'll touch places that have never been touched before.
Something touched me last week. Many of you arrived early to help with moving furniture, lighting candles and showering the space and the path outside with rose petals. Thank you. It was a feeling of family and co-creation that, I'm sure of it, super-charged the entire evening. I'd love to make this a part of every week. What a beautiful way to transition out of the work day and commute into deep intimate time together - and - it is a part of the Tantric practice to enter with intention, to offer creativity and our unique expression in every experience of love. In my own practice, I'm finding that preparation is 9/10 of my practice and that something extraordinary appears when I take the time to create mental and physical space for what I am devoted to in every area of my life. I'm also discovering the potency of community and the support we offer one another simply by being together in the same space with a common focus. If you're available to arrive between 6:30 pm and 7:00 pm in these weeks to come, please do - we'll create the space together in silence.
Last Thursday, forty-four Tantrikas sat knee to knee in the sweltering autumn heat. Soleiman captured this image just before the Open Class began. I love that you can see people arriving in the background . . .
We'll continue the exploration this Thursday, October 22nd. You are welcome to join us, this is the last week to join the series, please invite your friends. Register for the Sex Actualization . Tantra Practice Group
The titles for each of the classes this series are based on the qualities of the Sri Yantra cakras from the Earth Square Bhupura at the outer edge, to the Bindu at the center. The Sri Yantra is Sri Lalita Tripura Sundari, your body and the cosmos in which you live, all emanating from and reabsorbing into the heart of existence, where the conception of everything that has or ever could be occurs.
Sex Actualization . Tantra Practice Group . Schedule
Week 1 . October 15th . Opening to Desire
Week 2 . October 22nd . Fulfillment of Desire
Week 3 . October 29th . The Love Intoxicated State
No Class November 5th
Week 4 . November 12th . Nadis & Currents of Bioenergy
Week 5 . November 19th . 10,000 Rising Suns
No Class November 26th
Week 6 . December 3rd . Very Secret
Week 7 . December 10th . Purely Blissful
How To Prepare . Please arrive between 7:00 pm and 7:15 pm if possible. Enter the space silently and find your place in the circle.
What To Bring . Pillow and blanket or sheepskin to sit and lie down on. Plan your day and commute so that you are able to arrive early to allow plenty of time to find parking. What would make it possible for you to arrive and be in the space by 7:00 pm? 7:15 pm latest? Please enter in silence and remain in silence if you arrive after 7:00 pm.
In this newsletter, you'll find details about some Special Offers, the Sex Actualization Tantra Practice Group Trip to India, Tips For Getting the Most Out of Class Each Week, Something I'd Like To Introduce You To, this week's Home Practice, information on How To Make Up Last Week's Session if you missed it, an invitation to our Endless Love Facebook Group, my iTunes Playlist for the Music played in class, some Q & A from all of you, the Sex Actualization . Video Teleclass information and more.
Much love, Dawn
Chandra Bindu Tantra Institute
www.chandrabindutantrainstitute.com
310.592.1293
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Tips for getting the most out of class each week . . .
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Sex Actualization . Tantra Practice Group
Some tips for getting the most out of the Sex Actualization . Tantra Practice Group . . .
- Give yourself 15 minutes extra for your commute. If it takes you 30 minutes to get to Marina del Rey, leave your office by 6:15 pm to arrive and find parking by 7:00 pm.
- When you do arrive and find parking, take 2 minutes, sit in your car and make a transition. Let go of the work day and traffic. Turn off your cell phone - don't just mute it - turn it off. Begin to bring your focus to you, your sexuality and your sexual journey. Start class inside yourself before you even get out of the car.
- Pause again at the door. Take off your shoes and leave them outside next to the door or place them in your backpack or purse and bring them inside.
- Enter the space consciously. In silence.
- Please do not wear synthetic perfumes or colognes, many people are allergic.
- If you're able to arrive early, we'd be thrilled to get some help moving furniture, lighting candles, showering the space with rose petals and basically creating heaven on earth, 6:30-7:00 pm.
- Enter the space silently and take your space in the circle. Give yourself time to land.
- Notice if you're always sitting in the same place each week, or if you've decided you need back support and always sit near the wall - be open to something new.
- Listen to the music during the silent meditation with your whole body.
- Modify the practices in any way that makes it possible for you to participate more fully. If you have a boundary or injury that needs extra care, please take time to create the best situation possible for yourself and your partners.
- Unless you're already involved with someone in the class, I suggest you consider not dating anyone in class - until the series is over. This applies to getting together for practice sessions between the classes too - wait until the series is over, practice on your own for now. The virtues of this one tip alone are infinite.
- Ask questions. (I love questions.)
- Make requests. (I love requests.)
- Send music suggestions. (I love music suggestions.)
- Treat yourself and every member of the group as someone precious - I can promise you, each one of you is.
- At the end of class, take a moment to fully savor all you have experienced and received.
- If you're up for helping out with getting all the furniture back in place, we'd love your assistance.
- Be sure to collect all your belongings and be out the door no later than 9:50 pm.
- No woman leaves on her own. Please, men, offer your arm to the women in the class. Walk her to her car, offer to carry her things if you feel to. See her off safely into the night.
- Allow 5-10 minutes each day for your home practice.
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I'd Like To Introduce You To . . . The Renown Goddess of Desire
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Sex Actualization . Tantra Practice Group
In the Sri Vidya tradition, sexuality is viewed as an important part of life. The central deities such as Tripura Sundari, "She Who is Beautiful in the Three Worlds", and Kamakhya, "The Renown Goddess of Desire", have many sexual, sensual and erotic attributes.
The image shown below was taken at Devipuram, the Sri Vidya ashram we'll visit in January, by photographer, Julianne Reynolds. Here you see the outer lips of Kamakhya's labia, Shiva's penis emerging from within her, and the Meru, the three-dimensional Sri Yantra composed of five sacred metals, balanced upon them.
Guruji Amritananda, the creator of Devipuram, built a temple for Kamakhya. Here is the miraculous story . . .
Devi Manifests Herself to Guruji
by Devipuram Seva Group
Guruji used to visit the place every Sunday and spend time till late in the evening going around the place wondering why Devi chose this place and where the temple has to come up. During one of those visits, when he was going up the hillock on the northern side, he came across a place in the form of an inverted triangle, symbol of Devi.
He used to sit there and meditate, whenever he visited the place. One day Devi manifested before him as an extremely beautiful girl of sixteen years wearing glittering jewellery. Guruji realised that it is Sridevi herself and performed Puja to her. Highly pleased, Devi told Guruji, “I am in YONI form in this place, Kamakhya. If you dig here about three feet deep, you will find a SriChakra made of the five metals. Design a yoni here and arrange for Pujas in the 'KAULA' tradition for it. Build a temple in SriChakra design, so that all people, without exception of any caste, creed, religion or sex can perform Pujas. In the SriChakralayam, install all 108 idols depicting energy forms of my khadgamala, in their respective places as prescribed in Nava Avarana Puja. These idols in female form shall be life sized. Provide for a seat in front of each idol so that devotees can sit and pray of meditate. Install Ganesh, Surya, Vishnu and Siva Yantras as well.
In the olden days enjoying sex was a proper aim of life and so Kama was sacred. Kama was the God of Love, same as Siva, with Rati, myself, happiness of sexual union, being his wife. Use of erotic rituals used to be performed to pleasure me. They are carved in all sacred temples. Eros is pro-life. It is the fountain of semen, blood, milk and white and pink light which sustains passion, joy, creativity, power and love. This method of worship is available to every one. It is the easy path to me. My name means sex desire. I am the source of all life.
Did you know that Shiva's emblem is Ananda Bhairava, the unhooded penis Linga, that my temple is the life giving womb Garbha, that Ganapathi stands at the G-spot, that Kundalini- Kumara's seat is the clitoris, and that the vehicle of Shiva is the testes? Did you know that flowers are the genitals of trees, holy ashes represents semen and kumkum the menstrual flow?
Did you know that love play is my puja?"
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Home Practice . Opening to Desire
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Sex Actualization . Tantra Practice Group
This meditation enhances sexual sensitivity and inner openness.
Opening to Desire Meditation
Give yourself 20-60 minutes for this meditation. Find a place indoors or out in nature where you can sit comfortably without being disturbed. You'll need a meditation pillow and a blanket to sit on. This meditation may be practiced alone or with a partner.
Begin sitting comfortably, making a shift out of your daily activities and thoughts and into your body. Breathe naturally and easily, enjoy the simple rhythm of your inhalation and exhalation. Allow 1-3 minutes to settle in.
When you feel ready, begin by opening your eyes and standing. Then, softly gaze. If you are meditating on your own, you may gaze into your own eyes in a mirror, or if outdoors, take in the nature around you. If you are meditating with a partner, gaze into your partner's eyes. Allow what you see to enter your eyes the way sunlight enters windows. You are soft, open alert and receptive.
After 2-3 minutes . . .
Stage 1 . The Heart
With a partner: one partner closes his or her eyes, the other partner circles, clockwise, while gently sweeping their fingertips around their partner’s body, focusing on the heart, both partners are breathing a circle around the heart.
On your own: close your eyes, circle your center clockwise, gently sweeping your fingertips around your body, focusing on your heart, breathe a circle around your heart.
Continue 5-7 minutes, then pause. Hold the heart. Melt into the center of the heart, breathe from there. What do you feel?
If you are meditating with a partner, exchange.
Then, come into an embrace. If you're on your own, embrace yourself. Feel the hearts revolving around one another. If you're on your own, feel your heart revolving around the heart of existence. Relax, let go
Stage 2 . The Pelvis
With a partner: one partner closes his or her eyes, the other partner circles, clockwise, while gently sweeping their fingertips around their partner’s body, focusing on the pelvis, both partners are breathing a circle around the pelvis.
On your own: close your eyes, circle your center clockwise, gently sweeping your fingertips around your body, focusing on your pelvis, breathe a circle around your pelvis.
Continue 5-7 minutes, then pause. Hold the pelvis. Melt into the center of the pelvis, breathe from there. What do you feel?
If you are meditating with a partner, exchange.
Stage 3 . Father Mother
With a partner: sit knee to knee or wrapped around one another. Feel the openness in your pelvis, allow it to be.
On your own: sit in meditation. Feel the openness in your pelvis, allow it to be.
Enjoy your practice!
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Make Up Last Week's Class . Private Sessions
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Private Sessions
If you missed class last week, or if you were there and you'd like to take it deeper, you can do that by scheduling a private session with me. I'm available weekdays 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Skype sessions may also be possible.
Private Sessions
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Facebook . Endless Love Facebook Group
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Facebook
I've set up an Endless Love group for us on Facebook. It is a public group, please invite your friends. It's a place where you can share your experiences, ask questions, and get updates on this class. It's becoming a very dynamic group. You can join the group by following the link below.
Endless Love Facebook Group
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Feedback and Q&A
Please send me your questions - what's happening in your life? Thanks to those of you who checked in with me after the class - and - those of you out there in our world-wide community who chimed in.
If you don't see your question here, fear not. All questions submitted will be answered over the coming weeks.
Dear Dawn,
Is the Fragrance of the Lotus training an immersion that is uniquely Cartwright or does it emphasize particular ancient/modern Tantric traditions and teachers?
How do the workshops and practice groups compare?
Aside from new Tantra movement and myth and ritual, are other methodologies applied?
Love, Atty
Los Angeles . California
Dear Atty,
The Fragrance of the Lotus Year Long Tantra Immersion and Teacher Training is a combination of ancient teachings I've studied and received directly from my own teachers, insights and fusions I've discovered related to quantum physics, sex physiology and humanistic psychology, together with my own brand of meditations and daily living practices designed during my 23 years of Tantric exploration. My first teacher was Margot Anand, a great Tantric scholar. Margot's teacher was Osho, an Indian mystic who gave many discourses on Tantra in the 1970's. I am heavily influenced by both and have, in recent years, set out on my own to dive more deeply into the traditional teachings, practices and liturgies, focusing on creating a bridge between modern and the ancient Tantra studies. Those in the immersion will be exposed to the teachings of the major Tantra scholars, old and new, as well as my own (Cartwright) Tantric epiphanies and harmonies.
Workshops are a deep dive, the participants are immersed in Tantra practice and community for a full day, a weekend or longer. I see the workshops like mandalas, the entire picture of Tantra is there, shared with a specific theme depending on the program I am teaching. The classes are practice groups, they are 1-3 hours in length, there is a very limited amount of information given in lecture, very little history or relevance, yet practice is the greatest teacher, so the class are very effective. If participants want to go deeper, want a better understanding of the what, why and how of Tantra, an immersion is the next step. I do love the poetry that is created in the longer immersions - Tantra is a song that unfolds with dedication and time.
The Fragrance of the Lotus includes many creative subjects and modalities. There are dynamic bio-energetic meditations, art projects, massage training and sessions, profound communication practices, sweetly intimate moments of emotional openness, Gestalt practices, anatomy lessons, orgasm research and practice, the science of orgasm, femininity, masculinity, relationship dynamics, individual and group projects, hiking, swimming, water therapy, quantum physics, dancing, partner yoga, the Big Bang, Feldenkrais, Shamanism, influences from Ireland and The Netherlands where I also teach, Hatha yoga, breath work, acupressure for lovers, de-armoring, awakening the senses, increasing sexual sensitivity and flow, the path of maturity, extended sexual orgasm, Kundalini yoga, and I hire a first-class Ayurvedic chef to prepare all our meals and educate us on ecstatic nutrition.
Much love, Dawn
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The Sex Actualization Tantra Practice Group Goes to India!
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A Tantric Expedition to India . January 4th - February 2nd
An expedition to the hidden Tantric temples and ashrams of Southern India including Devipuram, the Srividya Ashram in Andra Pradesh where, in the summer of 2007, I traveled to the center of the Sri Yantra and experienced an encounter with Sri Lalita Tripurasundari.
"The Sri Yantra is composed of nine triangles, four facing upward, five facing downward. In the center, at the center of a small downward facing triangle formed by the relationship between the four upward and five downward, there is a dot, the bindu. The bindu contains within it three bindus: the ova, the sperm and the child.
Eight years ago, I visited Devipuram, a Srividya ashram in the jungles of southern India. During my visit, on the morning of the full moon, I was invited to be a part of Lalita Tripura Sundari's bathing ritual, the abhishekam. Attendees brought milk, ghee, sugar and an elaborate new sari to her chamber at the top of the Meru Temple. The ritual began with singing - I was told Lalita loves singing - and the undressing of the goddess. First, crowns and jewels were lovingly removed, then her sari. As we carefully unwound the opulent sari from her body, I saw what had been hidden - Shiva lying in repose, in sexual union with Lalita. My heart smiled in a way I cannot describe.
We sang to them, we poured ghee over their bodies, washed them with sugar, more ghee, then milk. These rich fluids were collected in a basin at her feet, to be made into a special dessert for our evening meal.
The hidden, revealed, met hidden places in my heart. At the center, they are one. Oneness entering the world through their distinction. Their individuation. Lalita is the cosmos. Shiva is that that knows her. Without individuation, the ecstasies of this endless discovery are not possible. Without their intimate joining, there is nothing. The are one and distinct. Perhaps this is why we love love so much. Love reveals to us that the ova and sperm are one. When this happens, conception occurs in every part of our being. Union is revealed. And the cosmos lives as us." Dawn Cartwright
Three to four weeks immersed in the heart of Tantra. Cities and temples, moments of learning, meditation and practice. We'll make the expedition back to Devipuram in January, following the same map I took eight years ago. You are invited to join me. Traveling to my spiritual homes in Pune and Devipuram, we'll walk the same well-worn paths walked by thousands of Tantrics since the beginning of time. We'll travel from Chennai to Thiruvannamalai to visit Lalita Tripura Sundari's beloved Shiva's largest temple, then carry him in our hearts to Pondicherry, one of the most romantic cities in all of India, and into her embrace at Devipuram.
The teachings and experiences that unfolded at Devipuram are like pages from a novel. Seeds of Sri Vidya planted in my heart at Devipuram are bearing fruit, now, years later. This is a journey for the true Tantrica. For those who wish to go beyond intellectual understanding and merge with the extraordinary cosmology and mysticism that is Sri Vidya.
More Information
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Sex Actualization . Video Home Study Course
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Six 1-Hour Sessions . HD Video . Available for Streaming
Thank you to all of you around the world who encouraged me to create a video teleclass highlighting the Sex Actualization . Tantra Practice Group sessions. In these 1-hour sessions you are guided you through the same Tantric practices, exercises and meditations experienced in the live Sex Actualization classes. All the information, lectures, opening and closing practices are included. It's as if you are here, participating live - and - by purchasing the series for download, you'll have the videos to refer back to and practice over and over, taking the techniques deeper each time.
Sex Actualization . Video Home Study Course
Six 1-Hour Videos . Streaming
$350 series of 6 classes
Purchase & View Now
Sex Actualization . Video Home Study Course
Session 1 . Sex & Kundalini Energy
Session 2 . Partner Practice & New Beginnings
Session 3 . What is Love?
Session 4 . Sexual Confidence & Generosity
Session 5 . Mutual Orgasm
Session 6 . Sex & Self-Discovery
Chandra Bindu Tantra Institute
www.chandrabindutantrainstitute.com
310.592.1293
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